photo: René Huemer [Author’s Note: Here’s a look back at our 2019 cover story with Vida Blue. Whenever I think back on this piece, my mind turns to the late Russell Batiste Jr. and the many times he would elicit equal measures of laughter and awe with his drumming, often during those late night gigs […]
Skerik had a very specific vision when he started Saucefest. “It was created as a reaction to the funk gigs that were going on down in New Orleans during Jazz Fest, where everything is premeditated and there are lots of songs going on,” admits the Seattle-bred saxophonist, who has long called the Crescent City his […]
Photo: Steve Rapport [Tonight George Porter Jr. enters Jazz Fest mode with 15 gigs scheduled through May 5. The following conversation appears on the back page of our March issue.] ** “This album is our first attempt at recording as an all-instrumental band,” George Porter Jr. says of his new release with the Runnin’ Pardners. […]
